Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:10:14 +0100 From: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fun with if_re Message-ID: <32A4E84E-8EC9-4197-91E9-F50EA60C4EF2@jump-ing.de> In-Reply-To: <20090204100507.5f223d9e.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <20090204100507.5f223d9e.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
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Am 04.02.2009 um 10:05 schrieb Gerrit K=FChn: > After the last update (11th December 2008) I have noticed the =20 > following > strange behaviour on at least two machines (identical hard- and =20 > software): > After weeks of flawless operation, the network connection on both > interfaces suddenly starts to mangle packages. Even a simple ping =20 > can show > up to 50% or so package loss. The machine is mostly unreachable via =20= > net. > ifconfig up/down did not cure this, turning off checksum-offloading > and stuff did not help. Even simply rebooting the machine did not =20 > make the > problem go away! I had to power-cycle them by unplugging all cables =20= > to get > back to normal operation. I've seen a similar, but fully reproducible behavior on this ethernet =20= hardware. It turned out to be not a problem of the driver: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/130957 > Is it > possible to use if_re from head as drop-in replacement to test the =20 > patches > available after 12/09? The other way, using an older if_re, worked by replacing sys/dev/re/=20 if_re.c, sys/pci/if_rlreg.h and sys/pci/if_rl.c, so the answer ist =20 likely "yes". MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/
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